Salt, perhaps, or a sailor boy? (6)
I believe the answer is:
season
'salt perhaps' is the definition.
(salting is a kind of seasoning)
'a sailor boy?' is the wordplay.
'a sailor' becomes 'sea' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'boy?' becomes 'son' (male child).
'sea'+'son'='SEASON'
'or' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for season that I've seen before include "Flavour food with salt, pepper etc" , "Add salt, pepper, spices etc" , "Add salt, pepper, spice etc" , "Period of a year" , "Particular time (for activity, conditions etc)" .)